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Carter Burwell, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarrķa, Jordi Mollą, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson (III), Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss - The Alamo

Carter Burwell, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarrķa, Jordi Mollą, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson (III), Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss - The Alamo

Band: Carter Burwell, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarrķa, Jordi Mollą, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson (III), Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss Title: The Alamo Rating: Release Date: 06 April, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Flesh And Honor 2: 300 Miles Of Snow 3: What We're Defending 4: El Bexareno 5: La Zandunga 6: Who Took Their Loved Ones 7: Listen To The Mockingbird Sing 8: The Evacuation Of Bexar 9: The Calm After The Storm 10: The Visitation Of Saint Ursula 11: Quiet Mountain 12: They Ain't Bear 13: Bonham's Ride 14: Sell Our Lives Dearly 15: Night Falls On The Alamo 16: Deguello De Crockett 17: The Last Night 18: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 1 19: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 2 20: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 3 21: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 4 22: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 5 23: The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 6 24: The Death Of Crockett 25: Runaway Scrape 26: Blood, Or Texas

Editoral Review That often introspective sensibility is well paired to director John Lee Hancock's revisionist take on the legend of San Antonio's fabled doomed fortress, which focuses more on the conflicted human dimensions of its characters than familiar cardboard, pop culture heroics. Carter Burwell cut his film scoring teeth on many a Coen brothers movie, quickly gaining a reputation for a quirky, human-scaled inventiveness that informed everything from jazz and folk to orchestral music and even the well-timed nod to Morricone. Burwell's use of orchestral pomp is deliberate and decidedly restrained; more often the composer leans on spare, evocative passages of simple, though ever-inventive folk-based music (like the elegiac "Quiet Mountain") played by various combinations of guitar, banjo, and violin. Vintage traditional Mexican and American tunes are also given their atmospheric due via Jennifer Hammond's and Craig Eastman's arrangements of "La Zandunga" and "Listen to the Mockingbird Sing," respectively. But its Burwell's own peculiarly modernist instincts that inform both tradition ("Crockett's DeGuello") and his own masterfully understated cues, particularly the bleak, almost gothic emotional landscape of his six-part "Battle of the Alamo Suite" and its bittersweet coda, "Blood or Texas. " --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Carter Burwell, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarrķa, Jordi Mollą, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson (III), Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss discography, or go back to the Carter Burwell, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarrķa, Jordi Mollą, Leon Rippy, Tom Davidson (III), Marc Blucas, Robert Prentiss tabs